Paddy Chayefsky Quotes
This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.
Quotes to Explore
-
I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
-
I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
-
I'm as radical as libertarians come.
-
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
-
My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
-
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
-
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
-
It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
-
Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
-
There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
-
Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
-
I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
-
Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
-
I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
-
I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
-
The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
-
I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
-
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
-
If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.
-
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
-
I'm not interested in pleasing color; I'm interested in exact color.
-
I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
-
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore.
-
This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.
